Cadillac F1 and their name dance: Czech Pérez, Valtteri Bottas, Yuki Tsundoa, Jack Doohan …

The American general Motors giant will arrive at the World Cup in 2026, but still has no confirmed pilots and the list is getting bigger.

Formula 1 will once again have 11 teams in 2026, a figure that has not been since 2016. The new member of the grill will be Cadillac, a brand that belongs to the General Motors giant, and that will debut with Ferrari engine. Little by little, the project that has its main base in Fishers, Indianta, is taking shape, and that will also have a plant in Silverstone. The team already has Graeme Lowdon as director. The English has a past in Manor, just the Team that disappeared at the end of 2016 and left the World Cup with ten teams. Of course, it still did not close with any pilot and the list of candidates becomes larger.

Little by little, the possibility of having an American pilot seems to have been losing ground. Colton Herta, who runs in Indycar, stung. However, today rumors point to runners close to F1.

There are two names that lead everything: Czech Pérez and Valtteri Bottas. The Mexican stayed out of F1 after Red Bull terminated his contract that linked him to the equipment of energy drinks for this year. The decision of the Austrian Popes arrived very on the end of the year and the Tapatío found no options for this year. Pérez also sounds in Alpine for 2026.

Bottas, meanwhile, today is a pilot Reserve de Mercedes. On the weekend of the GP of Great Britain, Toto Wolff, director of the silver arrows, acknowledged in statements to Viaplay that he had talks with Flavio Briatore so that the Finn would move to Alpine, already in this same season. The Italian, French Team capo, the negeither. “I have no such information. Absolutely not. Valtteri is a good pilot, but right now we have our own boys. If we change I will tell you,” said the Piedmontés. Bottas talks with Cadillac are maintained and even be closer than Pérez, because the Finn is still involved in the paddock and that would be an advantage against the Mexican. Everything indicates that one of the corridors comes out between Bottas and Pérez.

For the other armchair, the list of candidates is large. Yuki Tsunoda, dark in Red Bull (He added just seven points in ten major awards) was scored. The Japanese link with the drinks team relies on the link with Honda. But the wing brand will no longer give the bulls in 2026: it will move to Aston Martin. Further? Yes, Guanyu Zhou. Ferrari’s reserve also joined the list and his candidacy relies on Maranello’s will supply power units to Cadillac. In the agreement the services of the Chinese pilot can enter. In the middle, a counter that has nothing to do with F1 (or yes): the geopolitical trenching between the United States and China.

Quiet, the list continues. Felipe Drugovich, stagnant as Aston Martin Reserve pilot since 2023 (he was champion of F2 in 2022) finds no place as a holder in the Silverstone team. If a chance arrived, the English Team would release it without problem. Jack Doohan also entered the compulsa. Alpine’s reservation, who was replaced in his starting position by Franco Colapinto after the sixth date, would also have approached his options. And even Paul Aron, another of the members of the Alpine squad and who turned with Sauber in the FP1 of Silverstone, scored.

Everything indicates that Cadillac will announce its first pilot in the summer vacation recess that F1 will enter after the Hungary GP (August 3) and that the second name would be more in the year. Meanwhile, the names will continue to be added.